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Will this bypass the need for a Hulu Plus subscription for TV watching? Hulu plus allows you to watch Hulu on a big screen device in addition to tablets.



Hulu will likely invest in trying to figure out if you're streaming the tab to be able to block it, its their way.


Screen-casting from the desktop version of Google Chrome is a (beta) browser extension. From 2 mins of Googling (I'm no expert), it looks like you can detect those trivially.


You can spoof Chrome to be another browser and AFAIK extensions installed is not broadcast to third parties.


I really want to know this as well. I pay for Hulu Plus, but the ads are almost as bad as they are on regular television (that's right, you get ads even when you pay for content).


I read a few articles and they say it does work with Hulu out of the box. From what I understand it will broadcast anything in your chrome tab.


Using a phone app will probably require Hulu Plus. If you open up Hulu in chrome and cast it with the chrome extension, it might work until Hulu figures out a way to detect it.




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